In our last article we will finish off our music box. In this lesson we will create the top cover … Continue Reading

This lesson is a continuation of the series on creating a music box. In this lesson we will be creating one of the sides. … Continue Reading

This lesson is a continuation of the creation of a music box … Continue Reading

In this article I will discuss how to recreate a tag that was sent to me by a customer to recreate for their laser machine.

Sometimes when you have to set up for a coaches plaque or a annual plaque where you are engraving all the names it is easier to use a table layout. A table keeps all the text in line, spaced and you can justify the cells if you want.

Here is a request from a customer to create a big heart made up of a bunch of smaller hearts that follow along the shape of the heart. This was easy to do in CorelDraw using the blend command. I have used this command a number of times to create everything from dashes to ropes to stars. … Continue Reading

One of my dealers asked for some help on this order that they where trying to get. It is creating a ruler. I have been asked about this a couple of times so let us make the file up and show you how to do it.

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When customers give us text files it is not always in the best format. But the good thing is anytime we get the text we do not have to spell check which cuts down on errors. So I will always gladly take text. In this case I had a customer that got a work file from their customer. They did not know how to get it into CorelDraw so I did this lesson to show them how. There might be a better way and it was not as fast as if the text was formatted properly to be used in the print merge wizard but doing it this way meant that I did not have to spell check.

Here is a job one of my dealers asked us to do. This is not a hard job but he did not have a laser so we did the job for him. He emailed me the suggested setup from his customer. I also had to go to Brands of the World to import the lions logo for him. I had to copy the text paste it into CorelDraw, than format the text. The next step was to import in the lions logo than output the job to the laser so that I could engrave it onto acrylic.

One of the more popular techniques used with photographs is turning that photograph in to what it is called a vignette. The vignette is a technique where you start to fad an image from a predetermined spot in a photo and fad it to nothing at the edge of the photo. Creating an an oval vignette is the most popular technique and is used extensively by photographers. In this article we will use the powerclip function in CorelDraw to create out oval cutout. Than we will use the vignette command in CorelDraw to create our vignette